Tennessee 7 @ Kentucky 10: Postmor ... Ah, what the hell, THE STREAK is Dead. Party Like it's 1984!
by Glenn Logan on Nov 26, 2011 3:54 PM EST
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Sorry to the Gods of the Internet for the extremely mild profanity in the title, but this is a special occasion and it demands that I toss my normal decorum unceremoniously out the window. No, make that through, the window, I'm not even going to open it. The Streak is dead, and it's reeking remains are being dragged through Commonwealth Stadium.
For the Volunteers, we have to appreciate that they were in nearly as bad a state of disrepair as UK was. Their quarterback was barely functional, several major players injured, and had suffered through a season of equal misery to us, especially considering this turn of events. It had to end sometime, Vol fans, but you have my respect. We may not win another against you guys until I am in my dotage, but at least I lived long enough to see this.
Matt Roark. What can I say? He is officially a legend at Kentucky, and did it in the most incredibly unlikely way of all. But before we get too tied into the remarkable story of a wide receiver turned last-second quarterback when UK's starters and backups went down with injury, let's not forget that it was the defense that stepped up and played perhaps their best game all year against our biggest rival in the SEC, if you can really call a team that has dominated UK for over a quarter of a century a "rival" in any meaningful sense.
Quick list of great things:
- Matt Roark. Game ball. 'Nuff said.
- CoShik Williams played this game like a full grown man. He ran like he was 6'1, 230# instead of 5'9", 180#.
- Danny Trevathan and Winston Guy, the Pain Brothers. They brought the wood today.
- The offensive line did a good job, but not a great one. I'll take it with pleasure.
- Alvin Dupree was really getting it done out there today. The young man is a playah.
That's all I have. I am emotionally exhausted, have to do the basketball pre-game, and frankly, I just want to party like it's 1984.
Go, 'Cats!!!!
UPDATE: This video courtesy of KSR:
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What a sweet win
Markers Mark for everyone for tonight we ride into the sunset of the day we ended the streak baby!
Something tells me that this was probably one of your favorite post mortems to write
Slower Traffic Keep Right!
It was.
Maybe my very favorite so far. I just cant’ quite get over it.
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We deserved this win!!!
The players, coaches, previous players, previous coaches, and especially all of the FANS!!! We beat those ridiculous “Ol Rocky Top” boys and feels amazingly satisfying!!! GO BIG BLUE, GO BIG BLUE!!!
I use to love Happy Meals, now I love sushi, but I will always love Kentucky!
Fireworks tonight in Colorado
Always do that after a big win….and yes they are illegal and I do not and never have cared.
by darkandbloody@gmail.com on Nov 26, 2011 3:59 PM EST reply actions
lol awesome....
I plan to get thoroughly trashed tonight as well. I will drink one for my homies
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A huge weight-
Has been lifted off my back, as I have to work with a lot of Tennessee fans. I have been at Bridgestone 21 years, and have to listen to all the talk every year. I’ve been off the last two days, but have to work tomorrow. It will be sweeeeet… Thanks Matt Roark and the fighting UK Defense… GREAT WIN!!!
"You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't"
After 21 years you have suffered enough - happy for you
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
Thanks-
Think I’ll wear my “This is Wildcat Country” tee shirt tomorrow…
"You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't"
I'm breaking out the American Honey!
I use to love Happy Meals, now I love sushi, but I will always love Kentucky!
I know this isn't going to be that popular right now ...
… But Joker Phillips has presided over the ending of two of the three horrible streaks so far — Tennessee and South Carolina last year.
Even if he gets fired tomorrow morning, that’s something I’ll never forget, or stop being grateful for.
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by Glenn Logan on Nov 26, 2011 4:03 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Like they said during the game
Barnhart says that he is backing Joker firmly and is confident of where the program is going. Today was a significant step forward in that…especially in the recruiting side of things.
I use to love Happy Meals, now I love sushi, but I will always love Kentucky!
Thanks, Glenn for saying that
You have been one of the few voices of reason during this entire season. I hope this win will ease some of the animosity directed toward Joker and the Ky program in general.
"SPORTS"--Not interested----"CATS"--Pull up a chair,I've got all night.
I went to school for 4 years in Knoxville
and it wasn’t at UT, but it was extremely tough getting beat every year from 2000 to 2004 when I was there!!! I wish I could have experienced a win like this when I was in college during those years but the wait was well worth it!!!!
I use to love Happy Meals, now I love sushi, but I will always love Kentucky!
The streak is dead.
Unfortunately Roark is a senior so once again we lose our offense to graduation.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
That will be interesting.
Max Smith will have something to say about that. Perhaps Newton as well, but I’m not holding my breath.
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Its good to have a QB controversy.
Just think if Roark was a junior.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
I watched him play last night on the net, vs Lexington Catholic-
He looks very good. He is a big strong kid with a good arm…
"You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't"
And, the QB-
From Lexington Catholic is going to Louisville. Highlands won 42-14…
"You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't"
Glenn
if that wasn’t a 4 Roses moment, what is? (Other than another NCAA championship)
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Oh, it definitely is.
No doubt about that. After I finish this beer, a libation is definitely in order.
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A hero indeed - a great game by Roark and all the Wildcats
This game was a players total effort and I’m so happy for them. I to was a young man when we last won – Good God so long ago Well done Cats
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
Down here in Gatorland...
I am enjoying my ORANGE Blossom Pilsner!!!
I have poured my FRSB libation.
The Streak is dead. May it’s corpse rot for a thousand years!
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Do you hear that?
It is the sound of no one singing Rocky Top!
Slower Traffic Keep Right!
by SevenRings on Nov 26, 2011 4:19 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
The Tennessee suicide hotline may be burning up tonight - hope they have it well staffed
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
People will be throwing themselves off of Rocky Top.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Wish I had ...
the Black Saturday Depends franchise…LOL
I will probably be the only one sober tonight during the
basketball game. Enjoy everybody, but tomorrow when you wake up and you can’t remember today, just read the headlines in the paper and you will feel so good, hangover and all.
Heh.
Oh, I won’t go too far. I don’t think …
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Winning stat line - 4-6 for 15 yards.
Who would have thought we could win a game with that?
Roark deserves the game ball though with his running and his effort. He sure tucked the ball and hit the holes today.
The D was great except for the one TD drive and parts of the drive that ended in the fumble. They played great.
What a great story line for the streak. 2 or 3 pretty good teams should have won this game in the last 10 years but failed. Today, our worst team in a long time wins the game without a real QB and no passing game. Just wow!
Sign you've watched UK Football for a long time
Upon seeing a late game-sealing interception, you yell, “Get down! Don’t fumble! Remember Marty Moore!”
Tomorrow morning will be the greatest day in my life as a newspaper delivery person in TN. I sure hope it is on the front page so I can see the headline 796 times.
by GoLightning on Nov 26, 2011 4:34 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Very proud of the team
Bittersweet moment though for the Seniors that have played their last game wearing a Kentucky uniform. Thank you guys. All of you.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
by a2d2 on Nov 26, 2011 4:35 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Bring him to Rupp tonight
He can raise both arms like that and be the ‘Y’.
UT radio Excuses
1) Youth
2) Surprise QB
3) No tape on the wing t offense
Obviously would rather have the UK show, but this sounds good too.
"No tape on the wing T"
To find tape on that, you’d have to watch it in black and white.
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Wing T
That’s what they are calling UK’s offense today. I don’t know enough about football offenses to know how accurate that is.
Now more talk about the wildcat formation snap-fumble and motivation.
Ha ha ha
The Wing T was dead and buried the last time we beat UT. I believe Notre Dame may have given up using it about 1970.
"He still carries a lunch bucket. What's up with that?"
by BlueCollarMan on Nov 26, 2011 5:47 PM EST up reply actions
At least they aren't
blaming that controversial fumble call.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Roark went from much maligned and many jokes at his expense
to beating UT thus becoming a cult hero. Life is grand ain’t it!
Slower Traffic Keep Right!
It just goes to show
you never can tell.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Off to Rupp now,
should be a wild party.
I woke up feeling BLUE this morning. It's gonna be a great day.
Typical comment from Rocky Top game tread
We are being beaten by a WR at QB at KY?
could anything be worse than that on a Saturday?
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
Translation
We were knocked out of bowl contention today by a team using a WR playing QB?
Barnhart's Message To BBN
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
I had a choice...
of going to the game or cleaning my garage. Guess which I chose?.? But no one saw me jump, dance, and yell at the end; It wouldn’t have mattered in the slightest if someone had. KY won over TN. I was a freshman at UK in ’85 and thought I would see us beat TN again before I graduated…before I got married… before I had children…before children enroll in college. None of that happened. Hope springs eternal and— We Won. Finally
Things are more like they are now then they have ever been before.
by JollyCat on Nov 26, 2011 5:23 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Awesome!
I can’t be happier for the guys today. They did deserve this. Let’s win 9 next year and then get a big bowl win.
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Matt who???
Caught the game via DVR and liked to fell out of my chair when he started at QB! Wow, what a way to go out??
If your wings don't sweep....
No question.
Nobody could write that script.
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And running a Wiing T offense???
Who went into the film library and dusted that off??
What a great day for the Seniors! AWESOME…
Got some UT folks at work, the emails will be fast and furious Monday AM!!! LOL
If your wings don't sweep....
Who could even find that in the film library? :-)
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My feeling is ...
… that was what Matt ran in high school, and they just dummied it up to run today. His passing numbers and high completion percentage suggest an option-style offense.
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Probably true there...
“Go with what the kid knows” is probably what the Staff said??
And every time I thought UT would have it figured out, he’d gash ‘em for another 7 or 8 yards… Lotta heart that kid has, fo’ sho’!
If your wings don't sweep....
It's Been Too Long
This was really sweet. Enough for me to post a comment after years of reading as a lurker.
The post-game got a snort of Bakers with another dram of Blantons to go with the Arturo Fuente Hemingway Short Story Cigar. Sweet, indeed.
UT pushes a lot of buttons for me. My father was for many years the chaplain of the football team at UK and, as such, I got to be on the sidelines for games. The year poor Bernie Scruggs coughed up the ball deep in UT territory that was run back for a game clinching touchdown I was holding the cord for Coach Huntress’s headphones. As the UT linebacker ran past us to go up 21-7 a player turned to me and pleaded…“what happened? What the hell just happened?” I thought of him when they took the last knee. The game today eased a little of that pain I always suffered through annually.
Couldn’t be any prouder of those kids. They showed a lot of guts today…
American by birth, Kentuckian by the grace of God.
Bakers and Blantons!
You go, boy. Good whiskey, that.
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I had to give up the Arturo Fuentes. Except for golf.
But I’ll never give up my bourbon while I still have a liver. :-)
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And thanks for the comment.
It was worth waiting for.
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Well...
…I was afraid that I wouldn’t be ready for the B-ball boys with a bigger cee-gar. :^)
I’ve got some Pappy put away for #8. :^D
I love a Sea of Blue. Been reading since before you took over Glenn. You do a wonderful job. I find the site to be the voice of reason.
American by birth, Kentuckian by the grace of God.
Thanks very much for that.
We try to do our best. Sometimes we fail, but we always try.
Thanks so much for reading. And there is nothing wrong with PVW, I hope you get to crack that seal this year.
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Agree on all points.
Especially related to ASOB and Glenn’s work here. Definitely a voice of reason. This is a great place.
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It's A Real Godsend...
…living in Raleigh, NC for the last 22 years. I read SoB everyday.
The weather is great here, btw. Smoked the stoogie in a short sleeve shirt. :^)
American by birth, Kentuckian by the grace of God.
I'll be moving to Myrtle Beach soon.
I wish it was tomorrow. To old for this cold. But it was gorgeous here today.
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61 degrees...
…will get your attention this late into November.
I am…and will always be…a Kentuckian but I have come to love living in the Tar Heel State. You’ll get spoiled, Glenn.
Even if it is “South of the Border.” :^D
American by birth, Kentuckian by the grace of God.
I already go there every chance I get.
My wife and I both love the ocean, and the warmer weather, and … all that. :-)
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Wilmington is just up the road.
It’s worth spending time up there. You’ll be in a great place for road trips.
And, you’ll have no trouble getting b-ball tix when they play the Chickens.
American by birth, Kentuckian by the grace of God.
Yeah, I've been to Wilmington.
Nice place. And I expect to watch every UK game vs. the Gamecocks. :-)
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I hadn't figured out that the last team to beat UT, Joker was a player. Thanks Matt.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
Congrats.
I am definitely a huge UT fan but I wanted to come over a say congratulations. Your guys certainly deserved today’s win. You all showed a lot of heart. Enjoy the win and we will see you all in Knoxville next year.
To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not to Yield.
If I'm honest...
It was kinda cool, though gutwrenching, to see your guys celebrate. I have seen Tennessee end similar streaks…,FL ‘98 comes to mind. So, I know exactly how it feels. I don’t like it one dang bit, but if the streak had to end, I’m glad it ended now. Plus, I can’t be too angry since two of your staff are Tennessee guys.
To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not to Yield.
by mike2ray on Nov 26, 2011 9:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I think I can speak for many Kentucky fans
when I say Kentucky Football is just as important to Kentucky fans as our basketball program. We want excellence and sometimes that takes patience to accomplish that, but for today, we have taken ONE HUGE STEP FORWARD in that pursuit and I look forward to the accomplishments to come for our gridiron Wildcats! GO BIG BLUE!!!
I use to love Happy Meals, now I love sushi, but I will always love Kentucky!
Incredible effort by the guys.......they deserve every bit of glory they get from it
They earned the right to celebrate.
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Nov 27, 2011 12:11 AM EST reply actions
Bleeding Blue in Knoxville!
I’m a huge Cat fan who lives here in Knoxville and I am absolutely loving this!!! I’ve read all this crap in the local papers all seaon about how terrible UK is and how TN would definitely win! Talk about vol fans eating crow! Lol. Go Big Blue!
by Kustomz on Nov 28, 2011 1:47 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Oh, and to any Vol fans coming on here to post I mean no disrespect about the “crow” thing. Just enjoying the win. I’ve been given a hard time for a number of years living down here. Lol!
by Kustomz on Nov 28, 2011 1:50 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Just some things I have to say
I’m a little late on this post and usually never post unless I’m so frustrated with something that I’m demanding a change (Steve Brown – Billy Gillespie,and Florida running up the score Haha.. I just want to add this: Isn’t it great how awesome memories are burned into our mind from out of no where… When I woke up this Sat morning I had no idea it was going to be such an incredible day. I am so proud of our guys and of Joker! +1 on the reference to Joker ending the Spurrier streak and the UT streak Glenn I was thinking the same thing. Just think of how Roark must feel. Going from people screaming for him to not be able to play to being a hero that will stick in my mind forever in such a small matter of time. One Saturday Morning . Bball team # 1, The worst streak in football comes to and end, as well as a few other great memories were made for me today… Matt RoBowCobb you went from “hoping to never be remembered” to “how could I ever forget” Thanks UK and aseaofblue for a great day
It was a great day.
It rescued enough of the football season that I don’t feel quite so hopeless. This team was by far the worst we have fielded in a while, and yet we managed to win 5 games. Granted, 4 of them came against bad teams (the Western win looks a lot better now), but we have seen many seasons much worse at UK.
To end that streak was just huge.
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